Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) holds responsibility for the entire provincial territory, which spans a total area of 5,343 km2 and 39 district municipalities. IMM is responsible for a wide variety of areas including environment, natural-gas supply, energy, infrastructure, planning and development, IT, transportation, community services and vocational education, healthwellness, food & catering, culture, tourism, etc.
IMM is the principal public body in planning, design, implementation and operation of transportation sector in Istanbul with a number of affiliated companies that are responsible for transportation sector of planning, land use and integration with other sectors, traffic regulation and transportation in different modalities from active mobility to logistic. The city itself is one of the regions where the densest vertical urbanization is observed not only in Europe but also in the globe.
Our three use cases developed for the Istanbul Living Lab involved main food distributor of the city: Migros. As member of the project’s consortium, Migros has the strong will to optimise its operations and reduce the carbon footprint of its deliveries.
Use Case 1 – Digital Optimisation Tools for Greener Operations - The first use case focuses on developing optimisation tools tailored to Migros’ current delivery operations. These tools aim both to improve the environmental performance of existing processes and to prepare the integration of cargo bikes into the company’s delivery schemes. By adopting dedicated cycle-logistics digital tools, Migros will shift its instant food deliveries from motorbikes to cargo bikes, reducing emissions while maintaining rapid delivery times.

